Why sometime node package installation throws python not found error?

Question

I am bit new to Node.js. Sometime back when I was installing a node package It threw a runtime error said python not found or something like that. After successful installation of python it worked. My question is why we need python to install a node package? Can anyone explain

Answer 1

One of the dependencies of Node.js is GYP ( https://gyp.gsrc.io/docs/UserDocumentation.md ) which is written in Python.

You can read more abbout that on the official Node.js's dependencies documentation: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/meta/topics/dependencies/